An acrophobic person is afraid of heights. I’m one, but Luke obviously isn’t. There he is in the crack in the rock on the right. I’m glad I wasn’t watching when Steve took…

While serving on the Planning Commission, I was often chided for making the Commission spend time going over the details of proposed code and policy language. “We’re here to set direction for the…

“The Garden of Eden”

“The Three Gossips” Window Arch Turret Arch

There are certain advantages to being an immigrant from the country which lost the Revolutionary War. One of them is acute awareness that the United States went on to become Top Nation after…

This is the rock formation in Arches National Park, Utah, seen on Utah license plates. Steve took the shot just before sunset. More photographs from Arches later today. “Wonderful” doesn’t even begin to…

… or so Luke says, after Googling to identify the creature he and Steve saw on their hike by the stream near the balanced rock. Otherwise, they called it the blue-bellied lizard, which…

If you think there may be efficiencies to be gained by re-examining the services provided by the City of Portland in relation to those of Multnomah County, consider what it might feel like…

We traveled about an hour out of our direct route from Boise, Idaho to Wendover, Nevada, to see this rock. We all agreed it was well worth it, although I nearly had a…